1941-08-23 — Page 8

SAFETY

FIRST

Whiz

DON'T GAMBLE WITH YOUR LIFE safety as well as the safety of your car that you can depend on.

For your own

have brakoa

Brake Fluid plays a big part in the efficient operation of Hydraullo Brakes.

WHIZ NON-EVAPORATING HYDRAULIC BRAKE FLUID the dependable, permanent brake fluid that gives you the feeling of safety.

For longer life for your brakes ...your car and your- Belf

use WHIZ NON EVAPORATING Hydraulic BRAKE FLUID.

OBTAINABLE AT

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

STUBBS ROAD

REWERY

UB

SHANGHAI

ILB. DRAUGHT

Order Department el 34165

Tel

Sole Agents:-W. R. LOXLEY & CO. (CHINA), LTD.

"HANES" AMERICAN MAKE

Q

UNDERWEAR

For Cool and Comfort!

Combed cotton yarn shirts and white shorts, cut comfortably.

COTTON VESTS

$1.50 each..

JOCKEY SHORTS $175 pair

BROADCLOTH SHORTS

with elastic side bands

$1.75 pair

CHOOSE YOURS TO-DAY AT:-

YEE SANG FAT

CO., LTD.

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 23, 1941.

Conditions In Occupied Europe

(Continued from Page 6)

R.A.F. bombers have

and

DELAYED IN TRANSIT

A postcard sent from Russia on March 17, 1902, has just been delivered at Manor Farm, Herri- ard, a Hampshire vill- age between Busing- stoke and Alton.

The German colony in Lisbon women and children have been 0000000 had planhed a party for the con-removed to Dresden

other sular agents at a near-by resort, cities in southern and central and buses were standing at the Germany. Alfred R. Thomson, pler waiting for them to embark. who was consul-general at Ham- The celebration was called off. burg, was authority for that

Sailors were allowed two shore statement. leaves in Lisbon and came back

attacked! with a very high opinion of the the port_from_high_altitudes, he port, having found the people said, and on the few occasions very gay. They were allowed to when they flew low their losses take their cameras ashore. Two were great. There was very little grill cooks and a fish cook liked shipping in Hamburg Harbour, Lisbon so well they overstayed Mr Thomson, reported and the their leave and missed the boat. chy heard rumours that the fam- The return trip was less plea-ous German passenger liners sant. The homecoming Americans, Europa and Bremen had been unaccustomed to such lavish "completely burned out inside by menus, ate too much fruit, many saboteurs." The Bremen was un- coming down with stomach derstood to be at Bremerhaven. cramps. Passengers and some of the naval reservists, labeled "fea- ther merchants" by regular Navy seamen, also suffered from sea- sickness as the West Point en- countered heavy weather nearing American shores. Worst sufferers were seventy-eight Negro mess attendants.

"They were caught right out of The cornfields," said Captain Kelley, "and they were pretty

"Whatever damage is done to Hamburg is quickly cleaned up,' he Bald. "Within --days, even within hours, squads remove all the debris. 17 an entire build- ing is shattered within a short time there remains only a clear- ed vacant lot."

Russian Campaign

The German high command

Russian campaign, according to

The stamps on it are of the Czarist regime, and the

postmark is

St. Petersburg.

The postcard was addressed to Mrs. Hib- berd, a late tenant of the farm.

and concentration

camps,

green. Many of them had never | prepared for many months for the seen salt water."

About 2,400 relatives und C. Porter Kuykendall, former friends lined Pier 61 when the American Consul in Koenigsburg. citizens are being put into pri- West Point was tied up. No band East Prussia was full of troops son played the national anthem and and served as one of the spear- he added. few American flags were waved. | heads of the German udvance in-

"First the There were embraces and joyful o Russia. Mr. Kuykendall

Germans put, tears but no spectacular odiburst had to close two American Con are gaoling large

has foreigners in prison, but now they numbers of sulates since the beginning of the French citizens,

having started war. He was in Danzig when it with alleged Communist sym-

There civilians pathisers.

are, therefore, victims of war just as

of emotion.

ما

returning Americans

from Italy praised the treatment ac- started and saw the Germans oc- corded them en route to thecupy the town and proceed French border. The train from organise the Polish Corridor. The Rome, with seventy-five Ameri. Danzig Consulate was closed a the end of 1939 and Mr. Kuyken dail opened a new consulate in Koenigsberg.

cans on board, was held at San Remo by the Italian government until the West Point neared Lis.

bon.

"We were taken to the best hotel in town as guests of the Ita- ban government," said Thomas W. Bowman. Consul-General at Rome. "It was a lovely spot, with a private beach."

He Bald that the German people were nowhere near re bellion, that they obeyed orders as before.

much as soldiers in prison camps," he said. "The collaboration with the Germans is willingness for becoming less and less in occupied France. Where it does exist it is with the big industrialists whose motives are economie rather than patriotic."

But he admitted that the results U.S. Memorial Wrecked of the Russian campaign were not

as brilliant as the German people

Un'il last March 5, Mr. Bow-had expected them. Reports came turning members of the American Cesar Santini, one of twelve re-

from the Russian front, he said, Battle Monuments Commission, that the Russians were destroying which cares for the World War every hing in their retreat and

graves of American soldiers in that the German troops had diffi- seven cemeteries in France and culty with their supplies.

man had been Consul-General at Naples. On that day Italy decreed Naples a military zone and re- quested his departure.

They were too late. I had seen everything." said Bowman.

right. a milltary zone all Thousands of Germans were em- barking for Libva."

was

"It

the lend-

"Held To Ransom"

one in Belgium, reported that the American naval memorial over- looking the harbour of Brest, in northwest France, had been persistent British

Orsen Nielsen, of Mackell, Md., wrecked by Consuls from German-occupied First Secretary at the Berlin Em- bombings directed at German war territories reported that the Ger-bassy for three and a half weeks craft and port facilities. mans had been quite cooperative and consul-general at Munich for until Congress passed

Brest was the chief port of de- wo and a half years, said that the barkation for American troops in lease bill in March. Then the res-hatred of the United States dis- the last war, and in recognition of trictions piled up. The Oslo lega- played in the controlled German the work of the American Navy tion was forbidden to make tele-

In the in convoying men and supplies phone calls outside Norway, no press found no response

German masses. even to Stockholm. No code mes-

'across the ocean a large memorial sages via telegraph were permitted "have no desire to see us in this erected on

"The German people." he said, shaft of Brittany granite was

an old fortification (“ and two couriers were seized at

war. They have good memor- wall of the city. The site was the Swedish frontier. They were released

on the ies, stretching back to 1917." in time to sail

made into a park. Although he held diplomatic Mr: Santini, who was chauffeur West Point.

and not consular rank in Berlin, on the western front for General Cologne Badly Damaged Mr. Nielsen said he was "persona John J. Pershing, commander in non grata" with the Germans be- chief of the American forces, re- While reluctant to discuss in de-cause of allegations that he had, mained in France twenty-two tall what they had seen, many of made derogatory remarks about, years after the war. Ho said the those on the West Point told Germany and its government. eight American war cemeteries Mr. Nielsen said British bomb- had been damaged only slightly ture of Europe to-day. Many of ers had raided Munich seven by bombing and artillery fire in the liner's passengers related that times during his stay there, con- this war and that smashed head- British bombers were doing wide-centrating on an aircraft engine stones had been replaced. spread damage. In Cologne, for factory in a suburb. He said the Mr. Santini sald that French example, the town

has been so raids were not heavy and that it caretakers had been left in charge. hard hit that its great Gothic had been impossible to get close in Suresnes Cemetery, in cathedral stands over a shambles. enough to ascertain the damage. tern suburb of Paris, and another

THE CENTRE OF COLOGNE

of the cemeteries, with one office IS IN RUINS. A GREAT MANY

at the building of the former OF THE ROMANESQUE CHUR-

Ministry of Pensions in Paris,

Heading the twelve who return÷

enough to give a conclusive pic-

Winter Resistance

CHES HAVE BEEN HIT. THE A huge German V for "Vis-

FAMOUS

PLOSIVES.

Holland

a wes-

GURZENICH, WITH tória" is painted right over the with their families was Colonel PINNACLES AND TURRETS, entrance to the Hotel Crillon, oc-T. Bentley Mott, accompanied by BUILT IN THE FIFTEEN CEN-cupied by the German General his wife: TURY, IS HEAVILY DAMAGED. Staff in Paris, an American wo- THE PEOPLE OF COLOGNE man, who left Paris quite LIVE IN TERROR, ESPECIALLY recently, said. The Germans SINCE BRITISH PILOTS HAVE are trying to make the French The population of the Nether- BEGUN TO DROP HEAVY EX- people believe that the V is their lands considers itself still at war own sign, but the French know with Germany and is extremely The tales brought from Cologne that the campaign for victory confident that the Germans will «. pointed out that this ancient and started from England, and they be defeated within two or three formerly flourishing city was an are not fooled, she added. months, Ellis A. Bonnet, of Eagle' easy target for the British. It could The coming winter is dreaded Pass, Texas, consul at Amsterdam, be spotted in the black-out because in France and every one realises said. of the Rhine and its bridges. The that it will be harder than the cathedral, which has not been last winter which seemed unbear- hit yet, is in constant, danger able, several persons coming from since it is right near the railway occupied France reported. Last station and the yards. Many year, It was said, many Parisians military objectives seem to have still had supplies of food and been hit in Cologne.":"

coal. Next year they will have no i

He reported that, the Dutch probably would not revoltTM at: the present time against the Gorman occupation but " that passive résistance Is spreading to large-scale strikes, ment "Resistance is hardening all the

A huge shelter has been dug in stocks and their resistance will be time," he said. "They are pretty the public square of Cologne and weakened. During the summer, tough; these people. Some were-/ people go there for the night, it French people feed on vegetables for cooperation at first, but then was sald." But there are no bunks but it is understood that the crop, they turned back. The spirit is. and no sleeping facilities of any of vegetables will not last long, definitely anti-German. They kind in. this shelter and people just huddle in it. All those who could leave Cologne have gone, The new British bombs are so powerful that they could go right through any shelter,

Europa And Bromen Hamburg has been bombed frequently that thousands

Paris Resistance

still consider themselves at war with" Germany, and they realise that the United States is on their Passive resistance in Parls does side. They anticipate American not extend to general sabotago entrance in the war and will duly and' "àgitation, but consists of celebrate it, but they don't count "turning = ono's - back" upon the on any specific date. They feel Germans, another American who|thint the United States is holding. so returned from the French capital their East Indies, for them.” of reported. More and more French "(Cohtinuöd-on"Page"